Category: Uk

Spring has sprung. Weir Pool frog nursery has opened 🐸 4th March 2021, and a year since we flew back from India to the UK. At the time the UK had a grand total of 55 cases of coronavirus. A Read More …

“Human beings necessarily depend on one another, as in You can’t manage this all by yourself; no man is an island.” This expression is a quotation from John Donne’s Devotions (1624): “No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is Read More …

I couldn’t resist using Boris Johnson’s “Tis the season to be jolly….. careful” as this blog’s title. He said it during a recent Downing Street public announcement, which was from his Downing Street flat as he was self-isolating…. again. So, Read More …

The village put on a fantastic Covid-safe alternative to the usual door-to-door ‘trick or treat’ on 31st October. The dark streets were full of carved faces in lit pumpkins, grim reapers, spooky window displays, a sinister looking character playing a Read More …

Glen created this website to enable us to blog about our overseas ‘adventuring’ but it has, for now, become a diary of these unprecedented times of the Covid-19 pandemic that is keeping us in the UK. Therefore I am once Read More …

Boris encouraged us to “enjoy summer safely” as pubs and restaurants opened up again on July 4th, having been closed for three months during lockdown. The chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a new government initiative called ‘Eat out to help out’. Read More …

As the government allowed schools to re-open to Reception, year 1 and year 6 classes on 1st June, most non-essential workers choose to keep their children at home and remained in lockdown for fear of catching the virus. We had Read More …

We are still loving life in lockdown up here in ‘the Marsh’ 😃 There isn’t much to fear here except, in my case, a field full of cows! I know picking bluebells and particularly removing the bulbs is illegal and Read More …

Lucky in lockdown So, on 14th April we packed up our belongings from Karen’s bedroom and garage, loaded up our car and drove to our new temporary ‘home’ eight miles up Tog Hill to the Cotswold village of Marshfield. We Read More …